USPTO refuses Tesla Robotaxi trademark as "merely descriptive"

So they can just call it a "Tesla™ Robotaxi", they already have a trademark. The Robotaxi part does indeed seem merely descriptive.

&gt; Then again, perhaps as boss of DOGE, Musk will just use his &quot;special government employee&quot; status to bring the USPTO to heel, purging it of the experts needed to regulate his business, just as he did at NHTSA.<p>I clicked on the link thinking about this issue and found it at the bottom of the article.

There&#x27;s a Tesla FSD Community Tracker here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teslafsdtracker.com&#x2F;home" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teslafsdtracker.com&#x2F;home</a><p>Currently it&#x27;s showing one critical disengagement every 206 city miles.<p>Maybe they could call it Tesla Robocrash?

I&#x27;ve always found it odd that the leader for personal &quot;full self driving&quot; cars, is essentially last to the robo taxi market.

That is great. Always nice to see sane IP decisions.

Should have gone with the &quot;Johnny Cab&quot;.<p>How did a Schwarzenegger movie from 1990 do a better job of naming a robot taxi than Tesla?

Especially considering it&#x27;s been descriptive for decades in science fiction

Oh don&#x27;t worry he just needs to make a phone call.

I give a week before the USPTO has been gutted from the inside.

So now this elongated doggy turd will try to shutdown USPTO.

I&#x27;m surprised they want to associate with the word &quot;taxi&quot; in the first place. Doesn&#x27;t that cut through the hype bullshit supporting their stock price by admitting that they&#x27;re gunning for the taxi industry, which is fundamentally low margins, geographically limited and overall niche? Even if they capture the entire global taxi market, that couldn&#x27;t justify their present market cap (which as far as I can tell is supported by delusional investors who think these robotaxis will replace individual car ownership completely in a way that taxis obviously never will.)

I’m rabidly pro Tesla but this seems fair.